The 17th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition CIARP 2012 will beheld in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 3-6, 2012, and is organized bythe Argentine Society for Pattern Recognition (SARP) and the Universityof Buenos Aires.

This conference is a forum for the presentation of technological advancesand research results in the fields of theoretical and applied patternrecognition, for the exchange of scientific results and experiences, andfor the growth of the co-operation between research groups.

Prospective authors are invited to contribute to the conference by electronically submitting a full paper in English of no more than 8 pages including illustrations, results and references. All submissions will be peer reviewed for originality, technical content and relevance to the theme of this conference by three members of the Program Committee. The final acceptance will be based upon double blind peer review of the full length paper.They will be requested to submit their papers electronically through the conference website before April 1st, 2012. The accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of the CIARP'2012, which will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science - LNCS series.The papers should be prepared following the instructions from Springer LNCS series available at:http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0The papers should be submitted for double-blind review. There must be no identification of the authors in the submitted paper (i.e. No names, affiliations, etc).At least one of the authors must be registered at the Conference, for the paper to be published.*************************************************************************Special Issue in the Journal of Pattern Recognition Letters

Best papers presented at CIARP 2012 within the research area Robust Recognition Methods for Multimodal Interaction will be selected. Revised and extended versions of these papers will be considered for the edition of a Special Issue in the Journal of Pattern Recognition Letters.This special issue will focus on advances of pattern recognition algorithms related to multimodal systems. Of particular interest in the special issue are real-time applications of multimodal interfaces to healthcare, assistive technologies, robotics, entertainment and context-aware systems as well as applications to support the well-being of the general population and individuals with physical impairments.Topics considered within this special issue include, but are not limited to, robust algorithms to support the following:

*************************************************************************************************************************************************** Special Issue in the Journal of Real-Time Image Processing***************************************************************************Among the accepted papers, a set of the best papers within the area ofreal-time image processing/computer vision will be selected. Revised andextended versions of these papers will be considered for the edition ofa Special Issue in the Journal of Real-Time Image Processinghttp://www.springer.com/computer/image+processing/journal/11554

*************************************************************************** IPOL Publication of Algorithms!!***************************************************************************The submitted papers can be complemented by a submission to the onlinejournal IPOL (Image Processing on Line, ISSN: 2105-1232). The evaluationsof the submissions to CIARP 2012 and to IPOL will be independent, butcoordinated. Only the algoritms corresponding to accepted papers at Ciarp2012will be considered for publication in Ipol

To submit to Image Processing on Line, authors are requested to furnish avery explicit and complete algorithm description in a .pdf document, andto prepare an autonomous C or C++ code implementing this algorithm.Authors must also conceive how their algorithm will be demonstrated online, which may imply some restrictions on the input data and on theexecution time. The referees for IPOL are invited to check the fulladequacy of the code with its description, to achieve standards ofreproducible research.

CIARP 2012 will offer keynotes and tutorial courses. They will be held atthe conference site, will be addressed to all CIARP participants, andwill include principles and applications on relevant topics on PatternRecognition